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Oct 1, 2024 · Focusing on women's contested place within the political nation, Women in France since 1789 examines: - the on-going strength of notions of sexual difference - recurrent debates over gender - the anxiety created by women's perceived departure from ideals of womanhood - major controversies over matters such as reproductive rights, significant cultural changes, and women's often under-estimated ...
Thus, in April 1944, an ordinance of the national government, enacted by the Provisional French Government, included an amendment proposed by a Communist congressman, a member of the Resistance, stating that “women are voters and eligible in the same conditions as men.” In April 1945, women participated for the first time in municipal ...
Jun 1, 2011 · According to Montesquieu, the « condition of women » greatly varies in the different governments: women are free in monarchies, and « extremely enslaved » in despotic states, whereas « in republics, women are free by the laws and captured by the mores ». 7 As this last quotation shows, the condition of women is not a matter of laws (and therefore is not a question of rights) but of mores ...
- Catherine Larrère
- 2011
Oct 28, 2024 · Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality,1848-2016 explores how black women in France itself, the French Caribbean, Gorée, Dakar, Rufisque, and Saint-Louis experienced and reacted to French colonialism and how gendered readings of colonization, decolonization, and social movements cast new light on the history of French colonization and of black France.
Gender equality is a priority for the French government. Internationally, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs delivers on this commitment through its feminist foreign policy. France is advocating gender equality in international forums and wants this goal to be taken into account in all issues, including inequality reduction and ...
An overview of French women in history and the evolution of the French feminist movement. It includes English and French-language resources, primary sources and covers the Middle Ages, Witch Trials, Ancien Régime, Revolutionary and Modern eras in France.
16 See the following essays by Sarah Hanley, “ Engendering the State: Family Formation and State Building in Early Modern France,” French Historical Studies, 16: 1 (Spring 1989), 4 – 27; “Social Sites of Political Practice in France: Lawsuits, Civil Rights, and the Separation of Power in Domestic and State Government, 1500–1800,” American Historical Review, 102:1 (Feb. 1997), 27 ...
